Re: newbie guitar fingering layout question

[David Kastrup]

Jim Tisdall <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings!  I'll introduce myself after asking my question.
>
> I'm new to Lilypond and have a question about laying out some
> fingering in guitar material for a new book I'm writing.  I'm
> not neglecting the copious documentation, but I'm still on the
> learning curve for sure and have missed or misunderstood a lot
> as of yet.
>
> Using LilyPond 2.16.0, modified the "scripts.scm" definitions of
> \upbow and \downbow  so they are DOWN instead of UP (couldn't
> see a way to do that in the score ... yes, I'm a newbie).

Try
upbow = _\upbow
downbow = _\downbow

and of course, you could have just written _\upbow and _\downbow every
time you use them instead, or define your own commands.

-- 
David Kastrup